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What caused the Whiskey Rebellion?

It was provoked by a tax on whisky, and was the first serious challenge to federal authority. Collection of the tax met violent resistance, but when President Washington called out the militia, the rebellion collapsed.

The Whiskey Rebellion was triggered by a tax imposed on distilled liquors in 1791.

Which farmers was western.

Pensylvania believed was unfair since they made alcohool to sell.

The tax was estabilished in 1791 as a way to help pay back debts that the American government had accumulated during the Revolutionary War.

Although the protests against the tax were intially peaceful, they became violent in 1794.

The protester would burn the home of the local tax collector.

The protesters were also tarred and feathered, which is covered with tar and then showered with feathers.

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